Kolam is a highly complex interlaced ancient mathematical ritualistic floor art from Tamil Nadu, India. Practiced twice daily, the application of Sikku- or Pulli (dots) Kolam on the threshold of the house is traditionally done only by women. It signifies well-being, wealth and allows auspicious energy of divinity to enter the home. 
 
The Sikku-Kolam typeface is available in both Upper and lower case, it has standard ligatures and alternates for capital letters that are more ornate. It has  a range of diacritics to support Western and Southern European, Western and Central Asian languages such as Azerbaijani, Turkish, Tatar and Kazakh. 
 
TEAM
Kolam artists: Akilandeshwari  Neelakantan, Bharathi Bhoopalan, Chitra Lakshminarayanan, Chitra Kuppuswamy, R. Porkodi Shanmugapriya, Prema Kumari Ananth, Poorani Ravi, Vani Anadhakumaran, S. Latha, K. Uma, S. Rajalakshmi Vijay, Sandhiya Thiyagarajan, Rema Ramani, Vijaya Geetha, Vijayalakshmi Sivakumar
Type Design: Hema M. Varsha, Ishan Khosla, Andreu Balius
Type Developer: Ishan Khosla
Concept: Ishan Khosla
Craft Co-ordination: Hema M. Varsha, Ishan Khosla
 
Watch a video of the process of making the designs by women from the community in Chennai. Reading Between the Lines: Kolam as a Typeface (https://youtu.be/53upzGalPRs?si=u4dmPTiu5KF8xwhZ)